A new one Silo Season 2 Photo has raised my anticipation for the upcoming installment of the Apple TV+ show because it promises that it will adapt an exciting story from the original books. Based on Hugh Howey’s Silo Books, Apple TV + s Silo Retains some of the best storytelling elements of its source material but doesn’t shy away from taking creative liberties. Surprisingly, as season 1 suggests, the series’ creative deviations so far have worked wonders and helped the show perfectly translate Hugh Howey’s work to the small screen.
Given how Silo Season 1 did well with viewers and critics and even proved to be commercially successful on the streamer, it seems likely that season 2 will also introduce some book changes. As much as I admire the Hugh Howie books, I’m all for the changes because they demonstrate the show’s ability to enhance the original stories and surprise viewers familiar with the novels. At the same time, after seeing the new Silo Season 2 picture, I also appreciate the show is still accurately adapting some crucial book moments.
Juliette is underwater in a new Silo Season 2 photo
The picture shows Juliette struggling to fix something underwater
In the new image from Silo Season 2, Rebecca Ferguson’s Juliette Nichols is underwater, with a rope tied around her waist. Although the image does not explicitly reveal what she is up to, it seems to suggest she is trying to fix something underwater. Book readers will immediately be able to pinpoint when this scene appears because it hints at a pivotal Hugh Howie moment Silo Trilogy. Click through Photographer Rekha GartonThe photo also promises that Silo Season 2 will feature some beautiful imagery while unfolding Juliette’s adventures outside Silo 18.
Season 2’s underwater scene perfectly set up Juliette’s Season 1 engine repair arc
Juliette almost drowned while cooling the steam engine in Silo season 1
After seeing the picture, it is hard not to notice how it seems reminiscent of these Silo Season 1 scene where Juliette nearly drowns while fixing Silo 18’s steam engine. In the original Hugh Howie books, the titular silos run on diesel engines, with each silo having its own oil pump and technology to refine fuel for generating electricity. The show changes this aspect of the books by showing that Silo 18 runs on geothermal energyWhere heat from the earth’s surface is used to generate electricity throughout the underground structure.
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In an opening arc of Silo Season 1, Juliette puts her life on the line by spraying water on the engine’s red-hot plate to cool it down. While some aspects of this sequence make little sense, it perfectly sets up Juliette’s underwater arc. Silo Season 2. Since there are no massive bodies of water in Silo 18, most people living in the underground bunker are afraid of water because they never had to learn how to swim. Juliette, too, shows a similar trepidation about water when George Wilkins shows her the massive pool on Silo 18’s lowest floor.
Since Silo season 1 established how Juliette overcame her fear of water by learning how to swim, it makes sense that she seems calm and collected in Silo season 2 photo despite being completely submerged underwater.
however, Juliette overcomes this fear when she nearly drowns To death while fixing the steam engine. In this scene, she gets submerged under water for a good few minutes before somehow learning how to swim and emerging from the surface. Since Silo Season 1 established how Juliet overcame her fear of water by learning how to swim, so it makes sense that she seems calm and collected in the Silo Season 2 photo despite being completely submerged underwater.
Warning! Major Silo books spoilers ahead.
What’s Really Happening in the Silo Season 2 Underwater Photo?
Juliette is not in Silo 18 in the photo
In the scene depicted in the photo, Juliette dives into the water that floods the bottom of silo 18. She does this because She hopes to feed power to a pump that will drain the water. However, this pursuit takes a dark turn when unpredictable complications leave her stranded in the dark without access to oxygen. In the book, she survives the incident by tracking her air hose to the surface. Given how she only has a rope attached to her waist in the picture, it seems like the show is changing some aspects of the original scene.
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Key facts about silos |
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Created by |
Graham Just |
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Rotten Tomatoes critics score |
88% |
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Rotten Tomatoes audience score |
65% |
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Hugh Howie’s wool, shift and dust |
Juliette also dons a cleaning suit in the book when she dives to Silo 17’s lower floors to drain the water. In the image from the Apple TV + sci-fi show, however, she is not wearing such a suit. That helps Silo is significantly changing how the original Hugh Howie book depicts the scene.